Mary Cottrell

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Date:1914

Description:Mary Cottrell was the first female Labour councillor for Birmingham Corporation and was a leading figure of co-operative women’s guilds, both with <a href="http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1926">TASCoS</a> and regionally. She also became the first woman board member of the Co-operative Wholesale Society and was a government advisor on equitable rationing systems during World War Two (see also <a href="http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1789">'Thomas Hackett: Politician, Co-operator & Advocate for Adult Education'</a>).

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Women Politics Photographs, Slides, Transparencies Community Organisations and Activists Adult Education 1901-2000 (20th century)

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Donor ref:BA&H: LF 79.10 (90/1800)

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